While her husband, who works in the emergency department of Oakvilleâ€" Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, cared for the sick and dying in Wajir, Kenya, she assisted administratively and medically, but also used her‘ Godâ€"given talents as a singer and actress to give the children something to Even though always a "bit of a ham" and performing before an audience as far back as she can remember, the dream she shared with her husband of three years wasn‘t for a starring Broadway role or an Oscar, but to travel to the Third World and make a differâ€" ence. Only a mere few months ago, she and her husband, Dr. Martin Stewart, hopped on a plane to fulfill a dream. The young couple exchanged the comfort of their modest old Oakville home for humble accommodations that welcomed spiders and scorpions and suffocating heat at no extra charge. 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With her career launched at lightning speed and her agent Megan Goldwell urging her not to ‘disappear‘, it was a tough choice to take the time to venture to Africa but it the musical theatre troupe, Queen‘s Players. After her first year, a core of seven Queen‘s Players took a government grant and two musicals they wrote and directed on the road, performing throughout Ontario and Quebec, in youth shelters, senior citizens residences and underprivileged camps. Doing three shows a day damaged her vocal chords and Grant Stewart needed speech therapy "to learn to talk again." "I really thought my singing and acting days were over." Summer fun pg. 14